This study gives an overview of recent innovations in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in … Asia. While SMEs are an important contributor to employment and gross domestic product in Asia, they often face significant … developing innovative means of providing SME finance. This includes the growth of fintech credit, big tech providers, and new …

Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in … banks while foreign banks' lending to the real sector stayed flat. Hence, SMEs remained dependent on domestic banks and were … sectors and countries with many SMEs vulnerable to global banking shocks. …

This report identifies effective approaches adopted by countries to implement the G20/OECD High-Level Principles on SME …

This paper analyzes the impact of securitization on access to finance for small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in … the euro area. Using firm‐level survey data on SME financing conditions, we show that an increase in securitization … issuance reduces the probability of SMEs facing credit constraints and decreases the costs of bank financing for nonconstrained …

in SME is on relatively higher level than in larger firms …

A sustainable financing strategy for SMEs should aim to enhance a low-cost collateral-free supply of loans to SMEs with … borrowing constraints of SMEs. First, it suggests an institutional mechanism involving the government, banks, and SMEs. Under … borrower SMEs could reduce, on the one hand, the fund constraint of banks and, on the other hand, the asymmetry of information …